DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN KINETICS AND HEALTH EDUCATION
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Item RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPORTS FACILITIES AND PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS IN SELECTED NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES(1989-01) ADESANYA, O. A.The focus of this thesis was based on the examination of the relationship between sports facilities and sports participation in selected Nigerian Universities. In conducting this research, certain issues were raised. These included the adequacy or otherwise of the available facilities, the maintenance levels of these facilities and the participation levels in sports by both the students and staff of the selected Universities. The null hypothesis stated that there would be no significant relationship between the available sports facilities and sports participation in the selected Nigerian Universities. The main and sub-hypotheses were tested using the Spearman Rank-Order Correlation (r s), the chi-square (x2), and percentages in order to accept or reject the hypotheses. The analyses were based on well presented data on the thirteen universally played sports in Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA). The results showed high and positive correlation of the variables. All the sub-hypotheses were accepted. The findings showed that sports facilities in these universities were inadequate and substandard while the maintenance levels of the facilities were unsatisfactory. The participation levels in sports were also found to be low. Based on these findings, it was concluded that there was no significant relationship between the available sports facilities and sports participation in the selected Nigerian Universities. It was therefore recommended that Nigerian Universities should provide adequate and standard sports facilities in their campuses. The maintenance of these facilities should also be a priority to every University. These were considered as vital factors to effective participation in University sports.Item URBANIZATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS AS INDICES OF HEALTH BEHAVIOUR OF RURAL AND URBAN COMMUNITIES IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA(1985-06) ADEJUMO, M. A.The focus of this thesis was to find out the influence of urbanisation and demographic factors on the health behaviour of the rural and urban communities in Oyo State, Nigeria. A knowledge of the local situation on the influence of urbanisation and demographic factors was lacking. The study provided a vital link between foreign researches in this direction and the local situation. Besides, the study provided an insight into the health behaviour pattern of rural and urban dwellers. Thus health planners would be aided in designing programmes to tackle specific health problems in varying cultures from the information in this study. The study was limited to three urban towns in different stages of industrial and population growth. They were Eruwa (pre-industrial town), Osogbo (industrial or urban City) and Ibadan (metropolitan). Two sets of rural settlements were also used for this study. They were the remote rural communities which include Ogboro, Tewure and Imini. The second group was the urban fringed rural settlements which also inelude Oko, Kuta and Erimo. The health behaviour characteristics investigated were avenues sought for treatment during illness, drug use, and nutrition. The demographic factors that were examined as to their influence on the respondents in this study were education, inoome, age, sex and marital status. 983 subjects were selected for this study. The method of selection was based on different proportional representation of each study area in relation to their population. The main research tool in this study was questionnaire. It was designed by the researcher with the assistance of the project supervisor. Pilot testing of the questionnaire was carried out to correct ambiguity in the questionnaire and to improve on the qualities of measurement and discriminability of the questionnaire. The sampling technique employed in the distribution of the questionnaire was clustered sampling. The main statistical tool used in the analysis was chisquare and percentages. The conclusions from the study were that urbanisation and demographic factors influenced the health behaviour of the respondents in respect of avenues.Item IMPACTS OF PERCEIVED SEVERITY OF SICKNESS AND BENEFIT OF TREATMENT ON COMPLIANCE OF LEPROSY PATIENTS IN SOKOTO STATE(1988-08) ADAMU, A. O.The purpose of this study was to investigate the impacts of perceived severity of sickness and benefit of treatment in relation to compliance to treatment of leprosy patients in Sokoto State. The study also looked into the interactive effects of perceived severity of sickness and benefit of treatment on compliance of the various groups of leprosy patients in the state. Nine sub-hypotheses were stated to guide the study towards finding an answer to the main hypothesis. Using the cluster sampling technique, 952 randomly selected subjects from Argungu, Sokoto and Zuru administrative divisions of Sokoto State were used for the study. The main research instrument for the study was the structured interview. The interviews were conducted by the researcher with the aid of six selected and trained assistants. The chi-square x(2) was used to test the sub-hypotheses at a significant level of 0.05. The x(2) was however corroborated by the descriptive statistics (percentages). The findings of the study revealed that the higher the level of perceived severity of sickness, the lower the compliance rate. However, with regards to perceived benefit of treatment, the higher the perception, the higher the compliance rate. The percentages for compliance in the case of perceived severity of sickness were 40.4% for those who perceived leprosy very severe, 49.9% and 54.9% for those who perceived leprosy moderately severe and not severe respectively. The percentages for compliance in the case of perceived benefit of treatment were 90.6%, 73.8% and 19% for those who perceived treatment very beneficial, somewhat beneficial and not beneficial respectively. The result showed that those who perceived treatment very beneficial complied to treatment more than those who perceived the disease very severe. Similarly, those who perceived treatment somewhat beneficial were better compilers than those who perceived the disease moderately severe. However, those who perceived the disease not severe were better compilers than those who perceived treatment not beneficial. Based upon the findings of this study, the researcher recommended among other things, a wide and effective public enlightment on the various aspects of leprosy and people should be made to realised that leprosy is curable, it is not a very severe disease, it doesn't kill it only cripples the victim if treatment is delayed